Being bold can be scary

A girl in middle school told me once that I was “annoying” because I was “too happy.”

At the time, that kind of hurt.

Now? It makes me smile. Because that’s who I am.

I used to be really insecure about my bubbly, talkative, (and tbh, a little smart-alec-y) personality. I could come on a little strong at times, and not everyone wants to be besties during their first convo with you (learned that one the hard way).

I used to joke that I was like Hermione in high school, except without the glow up (haha).

This caused me to dampen my personality, hold back, let others speak first (even when I was BURNING up to contribute).

If you feel like you’re holding back parts of your personality any way in your life/business, I want you to experience a shift I felt a few years ago too.

One day I just decided to let myself be myself (especially on social media, I was so afraid of being cringe!!) And it was so freeing.

Now, this looks like:

• making silly reels because they make me smile
• opening up in email mini essays like this
• sharing about and being BOLD in my faith, unapologetically
• becoming first-convo-besties with my podcast guests and people in my IG DMs (I love a good voice note)
• asking cool people I meet to coffee chats when I want to connect with them
• asking new friends IRL to hang out and getting people’s numbers when I meet them to continue the relationship

In the words of my favorite musical artist Owl City (no joke, this song is playing right now), “Go and steal the show, ‘cause life is cinematic.”

Tl;dr – Do you, boo.